Student cities in Germany
Same country, very different lives. Each city page covers student life, real costs, every university and the community for your home country, with sources.
Munich
Bavaria · 63 programmes
Germany's strongest technical university, a very large international student crowd, the Alps an hour or two away, and the hardest room hunt in the country.
Erlangen
Bavaria · 32 programmes
A small city with one big university, a medical-technology industry and a twelve-day beer festival on a hill.
Würzburg
Bavaria · 30 programmes
A baroque palace, a fortress on the hill and vineyards inside the city limits, with a 600-year-old university and about 35,000 students among 134,000 residents.
Ingolstadt
Bavaria · 29 programmes
Bavaria's first university town, now the home of Audi and a technical university that teaches in English.
Bayreuth
Bavaria · 21 programmes
A small Franconian town with a campus university, a UNESCO opera house and forest on every side.
Regensburg
Bavaria · 21 programmes
A Roman camp turned medieval trading city on the Danube, with two large universities and about 32,000 students.
Garching b. München
Bavaria · 16 programmes
A small town on the Isar where one of Europe's largest science and engineering campuses sits at the end of the U6 line.
Nürnberg
Bavaria · 16 programmes
Bavaria's second city, a Franconian old town on the Pegnitz with a technical university being built from scratch.
Hof
Bavaria · 13 programmes
A small Upper Franconian city on the Saale, close to the Czech and Saxon borders, with a university of applied sciences that looks to India.
Augsburg
Bavaria · 12 programmes
A 2,000-year-old Roman city of canals and Renaissance streets, with two universities and Munich close by.
Freising
Bavaria · 11 programmes
A small cathedral town on the Isar, north of Munich, with a green university hill for food, farming, brewing and the life sciences.
Passau
Bavaria · 11 programmes
A small Bavarian university town close to Austria, where the Danube, the Inn and the Ilz meet.
Neu-Ulm
Bavaria · 9 programmes
A Bavarian city on the Danube, one bridge from Ulm, with a campus built around a lake.
Bamberg
Bavaria · 6 programmes
A UNESCO old town on a river, with one university and about 10,400 students in it.
Weiden in der Oberpfalz
Bavaria · 6 programmes
A small Bavarian city near the Czech border, with a business and technology campus, an ice hockey arena and forest on its doorstep.
Rosenheim
Bavaria · 5 programmes
A small Bavarian city on the Inn with a technical university, the Alps on the horizon and Munich, Salzburg and Innsbruck all within reach.
Cham
Bavaria · 4 programmes
A small Bavarian town on the Regen river, close to the Czech border, with a technology campus where almost everyone studies robotics, AI or mechatronics.
Ansbach
Bavaria · 3 programmes
A small Franconian residence town with one university of applied sciences, a Baroque palace and Nuremberg on the S-Bahn.